Re: [CODE4LIB] Streaming Copyrighted material

2014-12-03 Thread Simon Spero
Aereo[1] makes clear that viewing streamed material is a performance . «In 1976 Congress amended the Copyright Act in large part to reject the Court's holdings in *Fortnightly* and *Teleprompter.* See H.R.Rep. No. 94-1476, pp. 86-87 (1976) (hereinafter H.R. Rep.) (The 1976 amendments completely

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is the real impact of SHA-256? - Updated

2014-10-04 Thread Simon Spero
There are published papers on MD5 collisions, with associated examples. Researchers at http://isi.jhu.edu are quite likely to have read and downloaded them. E. G. http://www.forensicfocus.com/Content/pid=87/page=2/ On Oct 3, 2014 3:05 PM, Alexander Duryee alexanderdur...@gmail.com wrote: Simon

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is the real impact of SHA-256? - Updated

2014-10-02 Thread Simon Spero
Intel skylake processors have dedicated sha instructions. See: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sha-extensions Using a tree hash approach (which is inherently embarrassingly parallel) will leave io time dominant. This approach is used by Amazon glacier - see

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is the real impact of SHA-256? - Updated

2014-10-02 Thread Simon Spero
SHA-256 is authorized up to SECRET. SHA-384+ is required for TOP SECRET. Algorithms approved for more stringent requirements such as FOUO-SCI (SES Covering-up Incompetence) have not been revealed, though CARPA has funded research into plausible repudiability.

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is the real impact of SHA-256? - Updated

2014-10-02 Thread Simon Spero
. We use SHA 512 for most work. We don't do finance or national security, so it is a good fit for us. Cary On Oct 2, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: Intel skylake processors have dedicated sha instructions. See: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sha

Re: [CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT REMINDER (Was: Re: [CODE4LIB] NOW AVAILABLE: VIVO Release 1.7

2014-07-02 Thread Simon Spero
Was this rushed due to the ALA meeting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLNI0AND4rU

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 27 Jun 2014 to 28 Jun 2014 (#2014-167)

2014-06-29 Thread Simon Spero
THIS IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE DISCUSSED On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Rebecca Dillmeier rdillme...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 28, 2014 11:00 PM, CODE4LIB automatic digest system lists...@listserv.nd.edu wrote: There are 8 messages totaling 378 lines in this issue. Topics of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-18 Thread Simon Spero
Two strings denote the same public identity if both names are inten*t*ionally a linguistic or orthographic variant of each other and the public identity identifiers the same party. Intentionality is important because of cases like Ian Banks and Ian M Banks, which are different public identities

Re: [CODE4LIB] mailing list administratativia

2014-06-09 Thread Simon Spero
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote: I assume you've discovered the word is usually spelled administrivia. It's fun making up words. My latest is bibliopotheosis It's also handy when the OED adds them too - less need to update local spell check files on new

Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

2014-06-04 Thread Simon Spero
Who died and made you boss? Not this thread. On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Adam Wead amsterda...@gmail.com wrote: Do it in the next 20 minutes and we’ll throw in 10 karma points from Zoia, ABSOLUTELY FREE …adam On Jun 4, 2014, at 17:05, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online site feedback or usability surveys?

2014-06-02 Thread Simon Spero
Log analysis can sometimes tell you more than a survey; however it requires clickstream analysis, and limited cognitive modeling. User studies with eye tracking can be very revealing ( especially if you trust a model like EZ-reader to proxy for cognitive load ). EEG can also give very useful

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anonymizing address data

2014-06-02 Thread Simon Spero
This book might be useful (it's a year old) Anonymizing Health Data http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029229.do Case Studies and Methods to Get You Started By Khaled El Emam, Luk Arbuckle http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029229.do#tab_03_0 Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: December

Re: [CODE4LIB] Storyline or Scavenger Hunt Software

2014-05-30 Thread Simon Spero
I thought IT support for NCSU scavenger hunts involved electronic crow lures

Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

2014-05-28 Thread Simon Spero
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Scherbak, Loren scherb...@si.edu wrote: I much prefer the new format, but I see I am in the minority. I get the digest and cannot filter on Job. user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.4.1.140326 == You ought to be able to create a rule (filter) using these

Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

2014-05-28 Thread Simon Spero
, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Scherbak, Loren scherb...@si.edu wrote: I much prefer the new format, but I see I am in the minority. I get the digest and cannot filter on Job. user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.4.1.140326

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ross Singer RE: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

2014-05-28 Thread Simon Spero
/**about.me http://www.about.me/matthewmckinley* On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Scherbak, Loren scherb...@si.edu wrote: I much prefer the new format, but I see I am

[CODE4LIB] Is it possible to stop the mailing list from striping DKIMs

2014-05-28 Thread Simon Spero
s4T2573P017562 V/R, Simon Spero (I think...At least an Identity Crisis is better than a Civil War)

[CODE4LIB] A meme is born? (was Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16)

2014-05-17 Thread Simon Spero
On May 16, 2014 3:46 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: THIS IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE DISCUSSED. This has meme potential. (Over a screen grab of the bibframe homepage?) (royt photoshopped into a picture of people climbing Ben Nevis?)

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have experience with PHP-VCR

2014-05-17 Thread Simon Spero
Is the Selenium php driver any use? https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver On May 16, 2014 4:54 PM, Karen Coombs librarywebc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to mock HTTP requests for a code library I'm working on by using the PHP-VCR library. https://github.com/php-vcr/php-vcr I'm having

Re: [CODE4LIB] A meme is born? (was Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16)

2014-05-17 Thread Simon Spero
FTW! [It's all fun and games till someone ends up in a cone]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal

2014-05-15 Thread Simon Spero
https://drupal.org/project/bad_judgement

Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs

2014-05-08 Thread Simon Spero
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.govwrote: On May 8, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Ben Brumfield wrote:As this is an an actual LISTSERV(tm) mailing list, it's possible for the list owner to define 'topics', and then for people to set up their subscription to exclude

Re: [CODE4LIB] Friends of code4lib (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos)

2014-04-14 Thread Simon Spero
educational activities such as the conference, mailing list, website, IRC channel, etc.). So a 501(c)(3) seems like a better fit to me. -Esme On 04/13/2014, at 12:57 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: [Note that 501 (c)(6) only applies to membership

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

2014-04-13 Thread Simon Spero
Whilst it might be possible that code4lib might qualify under IRC 501(c)(3) it is also possible that code4lib might be a professional organization under IRC 501(c)(6) . 6. An organization formed to stimulate the development and free interchange of information pertaining to systems and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

2014-04-13 Thread Simon Spero
[Note that 501 (c)(6) only applies to membership organizations] On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: Whilst it might be possible that code4lib might qualify under IRC 501(c)(3) it is also possible that code4lib might be a professional organization under

Re: [CODE4LIB] Friends of code4lib (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos)

2014-04-13 Thread Simon Spero
the the advancement of education category (i.e. to support educational activities such as the conference, mailing list, website, IRC channel, etc.). So a 501(c)(3) seems like a better fit to me. -Esme On 04/13/2014, at 12:57 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: [Note that 501 (c)(6) only applies

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

2014-04-09 Thread Simon Spero
If DEATH were holding the severed head of MARC I would get this as a prison tattoo. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Jay Gattuso jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nz wrote: Luckily we made the graphic in such a way we can easily change the text Any of the text. The maker is on leave exploring Europe,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Carolina Regional Group?

2014-03-31 Thread Simon Spero
Bob Jones University library? On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.eduwrote: Be sure to specify WHICH Greenville. Greenville NC isn't exactly central, but people might not be paying attention. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Kevin S. Clarke

Re: [CODE4LIB] Carolina Regional Group?

2014-03-31 Thread Simon Spero
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.comwrote: rsinger++ Runs until next Monday at ~11:45PM PDT Though I am a bit curious why an East coast meeting gets a PDT deadline... :-) Says the man who leaves the N out of UNC

Re: [CODE4LIB] CFP: A Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages

2014-03-26 Thread Simon Spero
I would structure the book by task, showing how different languages would implement the same task. For example, using a marc parsing library in java, groovy, python, ruby, perl, c/c++/objective c, Haskell. Implementing same. Using a rest API Implementing a rest API Doing statistical analysis

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-19 Thread Simon Spero
Alfresco uses apache tika to extract exif metadata from images. The tika plugin to support is on github at https://github.com/Alfresco/tika-exiftool . oh. On Dec 17, 2013 4:55 PM, Edward Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: I remember hearing somewhere that ExifTool is pretty good for extracting

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mapping LCSH to DDC

2013-12-12 Thread Simon Spero
I've did some mining of DDC/LCSH correlations from the scriblio.net LC files (Dec 2006 - ~ 7m records) as an experiment a long time ago; I should see if I can find the right repo. I was looking at 1st 6XX - 082 associations as evidence for or against LCSH syndetic structure. I didn't do

Re: [CODE4LIB] User Registration and Authentication for a Tomcat webapp?

2013-12-02 Thread Simon Spero
Atlassian Crowd (if you have jira or confluence you may already have this licensed). SocialAuth (supports, but relies on oauth sources). Apache Shiro (requires external account provider- see demo). Shibboleth? On Dec 1, 2013 4:09 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: OCLC Research is

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-12-01 Thread Simon Spero
On Dec 1, 2013 6:42 PM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: So that you don't screw up web proxies, you have to specify the 'Vary' header to tell which parameters you consider significant so that it knows what is or isn't cacheable. I believe that if a Vary isn't specified, and the

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-11-29 Thread Simon Spero
Seth (and commenters) - The basic point is sound, but there are some important issues that are averted or are elided in the original article in order to make the underlying point more clearly. 1: It should be quite clear that there is no need to develop an API for the sole purpose of

Re: [CODE4LIB] calibr: a simple opening hours calendar

2013-11-27 Thread Simon Spero
[If a library building is open for all but a few hours, but contains servers, it is bad practice for cleaning staff to shutoff building power when finishing their shifts. Not that this has ever happened, especially not at UNC] There are some generalizations in the data shown on your blog post

Re: [CODE4LIB] Should linked data URIs be https?

2013-11-21 Thread Simon Spero
http?X and https?X are different URIs. You may fetch a document containing a serialized graph using TLS but that is quite separate from the URIs that may be used as identifiers. In fact, the denotation of a IRI used to name a graph is explicitly unspecified (I am having to craft a semantics for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Charlotte, NC Code4Lib Meeting

2013-11-14 Thread Simon Spero
Anyone thought about doing a code4lib in Asheville? What about Raleigh? :-P On Nov 12, 2013 8:42 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be interested. I'm in Boone... not too far a drive. :) Kevin On Nov 12, 2013 6:35 PM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote: Is anyone in

Re: [CODE4LIB] anyone know how to properly do a marc4j release?

2013-11-13 Thread Simon Spero
I brought marc4j under ivy; I haven't bothered with the maven artifact generation tasks, but that would be the way to go. On Nov 13, 2013 6:16 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Robert Haschart rh...@virginia.edu wrote: If you mean re-organize the

Re: [CODE4LIB] (Haskell ecosystem would be nice) Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

2013-08-01 Thread Simon Spero
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Marc Chantreux m...@unistra.fr wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:27:01AM -0400, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: i don't know why we're not talking about Haskell I did to tell there is a lack of libraries and it is not as convenient as perl when it comes to use

Re: [CODE4LIB] tiff2pdf, then back to pdf?

2013-04-28 Thread Simon Spero
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote: Every choice people make is about loss. Equipment, optics, lighting, you name it. But for some reason, the instant we're talking about bits of data on a disk, people plan as though capacity were unlimited when most

Re: [CODE4LIB] A question about voting points

2013-04-03 Thread Simon Spero
I cast Arrow's Impossibility Theorem on the ogre closest to the paladin... For a forced-choice selection between two options, First Past The Post is equivalent to instant run-off with no RON available. A system that satisfies many useful properties, (one of which is there's code out there

Re: [CODE4LIB] Slicing/dicing/combining large amounts of data efficiently

2013-03-06 Thread Simon Spero
[Since you're getting good performance using a relational database, these may not be necessary for you, but since I've been looking at some of the tricks I've used in my own code to see how they can be fitted into the revived marc4j project, I thought I'd write them down] If the Tennant/Dean

Re: [CODE4LIB] password lockboxes (was: what do you do: API accounts used by library software, that assume an individual is registered)

2013-03-05 Thread Simon Spero
There are several known algorithms for Secret Sharing - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing Simon On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.govwrote: On Mar 5, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Adam Constabaris wrote: An option is to use a password management program

Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?

2013-02-14 Thread Simon Spero
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.eduwrote: Nuh-uh, remember that whole Reformation thing? You nailed *what* to the door?

Re: [CODE4LIB] XMP Metadata to tab-delemited file

2013-01-14 Thread Simon Spero
XMP uses a subset of RDF/XML, with a few limitations thrown in to make reification and provenance tracking impossible, but hey who needs metadata. I'm not sure if XSLT is particularly well suited to anything, but it ought to be possible to cruft something up. I would still recommend following

[CODE4LIB] OCR news (was Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF Compression)

2012-10-28 Thread Simon Spero
On a vaguely related note: I was talking to some people at the ABBYY booth in the exhibit hall for KMWorld/Enterprise Search Summit/Taxonomy Bootcamp, and asked whether the Linux version of their software was not going to be updated. Apparently it will be skipping a major, and will be syncing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-28 Thread Simon Spero
An interesting reference is this: High, W. M. (1990). Editing Changes to Monographic Cataloging Records in the OCLC Database: An Analysis of the Practice in Five University Libraries. PhD thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It's in UMI (and Heavy Trussed). Simon On Aug

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-28 Thread Simon Spero
On Aug 28, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote: I seem to recall seeing a presentation a couple of years ago from someone in the intelligence community, where they'd keep all of their intelligence, but they stored RDF quads so they could track the source. They'd then assign a confidence

Re: [CODE4LIB] url question in mets document

2012-07-19 Thread Simon Spero
BLUF: don't embed the scheme, and don't bother with a ./ path component. See section 5 of http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt for more details. On Jul 19, 2012 1:53 PM, Esha Datta e...@nyu.edu wrote: Hi, I am working on a METS document and want to point to files using paths relative

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Projects and Technology Librarian at Yale University

2012-07-19 Thread Simon Spero
very much like to apply. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:35 PM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: * May be required to assist with disaster recovery efforts. PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS * Advanced degree

Re: [CODE4LIB] LoC job opening ???

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Spero
On Jul 9, 2012 1:27 PM, Joshua Gomez jngo...@gwu.edu wrote: WE NEED A CAT LOVER WHO IS ALSO A FEDERAL EMPLOYEE TO DO THIS JOB! Must have active TS/SCI clearance with FS Poly. All applicants must complete the attached 20 page KSA.

Re: [CODE4LIB] LoC job opening ???

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Spero
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.govwrote: So, the real question is why it must specifically be federal employee librarians. (and I don't know of any librarians with TS/SCI/Poly ... but I *have* heard that some of the archivists at the National Archives

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Django Developer

2012-06-18 Thread Simon Spero
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Stephen Westman srwest...@gmail.comwrote: Is it just me. or is there a problem the jobs.code4lib.org Web site? I try going there using different browsers - and even different operating systems - and all I see is gibberish - as if the character encoding is

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [ontolog-forum] NCBO Webinar: Yolanda Gil, June 20 - Semantic Workflows and Provenance-Aware Software

2012-06-18 Thread Simon Spero
-- Forwarded message -- From: Trish Whetzel plwhet...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:24 PM Subject: [ontolog-forum] NCBO Webinar: Yolanda Gil, June 20 - Semantic Workflows and Provenance-Aware Software To: obo-disc...@lists.sourceforge.net,

Re: [CODE4LIB] A bibliography in XMP inside PDF

2012-06-15 Thread Simon Spero
://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfx/ [2] https://github.com/bencomp/**pdfx-exthttps://github.com/bencomp/pdfx-ext On 12/6/'12 12:15 AM, Simon Spero wrote: You can include XMP packets in pdftex files using the \pdfcatalog primitive ; there are a couple of macro packages

Re: [CODE4LIB] A bibliography in XMP inside PDF

2012-06-11 Thread Simon Spero
You can include XMP packets in pdftex files using the \pdfcatalog primitive ; there are a couple of macro packages that add a little bit of a wrapper: xmpincl basically just wraps and inserts the contents of an external RDF+XML file as the value of /Metadata .

Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic libraries - Will dev for pay models?

2012-06-06 Thread Simon Spero
Having done my time working for in both the research and administrative side university computing, I would also have to ask if the development is within the library's competence, or if it is something that would normally be handled by one of the other groups. If it's administrative computing,

Re: [CODE4LIB] What projects are using UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture)?

2012-06-03 Thread Simon Spero
I've messed around with UIMA, and it's a nice general architecture, but don't even think about trying to use it without the eclipse workflow gui. I have a slight preference for GATE (http://gate.ac.uk), but there is literally no difference in functionality between the two, since UIMA has a plugin

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Simon Spero
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Ravi Shankar rshan...@stanford.edu wrote: We were currently leaning towards open-source triple stores. As far as inferencing goes, I suspect we will be doing at least transitive closures on rdfs:subClassOf and rdfs:subPropertyOf properties. I will look into

Re: [CODE4LIB] First draft of patron account API

2012-05-29 Thread Simon Spero
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Jakob Voss jakob.v...@gbv.de wrote: What are your major complaints with NCIP? 2. NCIP is rarely implemented in total, so you never know what you get 2(a) Each implementation is usually of a different subset :-/ One existing protocol that might be

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Simon Spero
The latest version of Jena TDB adds atomic transactions (version 0.9.0+) See http://jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/tdb_transactions.html for documentation: The following limitations are listed: - Bulk loads: the TDB bulk loader is not transactional - Nested transactions are not

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you get plain language, plain English out of the .sgstn stenograph stenonote record of the public meeting?... [see other message]

2012-05-23 Thread Simon Spero
Is OCLC controlling sandwich meats now? Where will it end? The correct answer to the original question is - go to court. On May 23, 2012 1:27 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: Looks like baloney to me. I wouldn't touch it. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Magic for file

2012-05-23 Thread Simon Spero
The file format magic format magic changed between versions; I think the OSX version was not compatible with more up to date versions (in the original thread, this caused me some confusion). Simon On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On May 23, 2012, at

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat SRU queries - elimination of records without a DDC no from the result set

2012-05-22 Thread Simon Spero
Arash - you might not want to use a straight dump of worldcat catalog records- at least not without the associated holdings information.* There are a lot of quasi-duplicate records that are sufficiently broken that the worldcat de-duplication algorithm refuses to merge them. These records will

Re: [CODE4LIB] more on MARC char encoding: Now we're about ISO_2709 and MARC21

2012-04-17 Thread Simon Spero
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Okay, forget XML for a moment, let's just look at marc 'binary'. First, for Anglophone-centric MARC21. Actually Anglo and Francophone centric. And the USMARC style 245 was a poor replacement for the UKMARC approach

Re: [CODE4LIB] monitoring wireless networks

2012-04-14 Thread Simon Spero
If you are using a linux system, you can get the information by looking at /proc/net/wireless, or by running iwlist scan. If you're running mac os, there's a command line program for doing wirelessy things - /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport You can scan for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-10 Thread Simon Spero
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Ancient geographic entities. Athens is in Attica. Sardis is in Lydia (in Anatolia, for example). If these were modern geopolitical entities, I would use geonames. We're linking cities to Pleiades, but Pleiades does not

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-09 Thread Simon Spero
Are you talking about geographical entities, or geopolitical ones? For example, is there an answer to the question what country is constantinople located in? Simon On Apr 8, 2012 8:02 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: CIDOC-CRM may be the answer here. I will look over the

Re: [CODE4LIB] NON-MARC ILS?

2012-03-14 Thread Simon Spero
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Owen, Will o...@email.unc.edu wrote: Endeca provides a public interface to library holdings: it is not and could not be an ILS, performing functions like circulation, accounting control, etc. In this respect it's more akin to Blacklight that to an ILS. One

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: at ScraperWiki

2012-03-13 Thread Simon Spero
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Chad Benjamin Nelson cnelso...@gsu.edu wrote: I think it is just some examples of the weird and interesting data in scraperwiki. Yeah, I guess it would be kind of pointless spam eh? :-)

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Indoctrination link added to the Wiki main page

2012-02-22 Thread Simon Spero
Indoctrination is probably the correct term; it's the background briefing before being read in to the compartment. Simon On Feb 22, 2012 11:52 AM, Bohyun Kim k...@fiu.edu wrote: In my defense, I didn't pick the term, 'indoctrination.' =) But it shows something about the community, eh? The

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2012-02-16 Thread Simon Spero
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:13 AM, suzanne.pilsk suzanne.pi...@gmail.comwrote: (Pssst: Does it matter if you call it data and I call it metadata?) It may matter only to the extent that we each use the terms appropriately relative to our own use and context. On a related note, I would make a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2012-02-15 Thread Simon Spero
I have had several theoretical changes of opinion on this question, and have come to the considered opinion that there is no principled *essential* difference between Metadata and Data. It all depends on the context/theory/background assumptions to which the data is being applied. The property of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference IRC logs

2012-02-07 Thread Simon Spero
/nick edsu On Feb 7, 2012 6:51 AM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote: Hi all, Just a reminder: the #code4lib IRC channel will be logged and the logs made available for viewing at http://irc.code4lib.org at some point during or just after the conference. Keep it civil, keep it weird.

[CODE4LIB] *The* big game

2012-02-06 Thread Simon Spero
Anyone interested in getting together to watch the big game on weds? Simon

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Newcomer Dinner option

2012-02-05 Thread Simon Spero
On Feb 4, 2012, at 16:19, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Probably their cat… They need this: http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/ 2012/2/4 Erik Hatcher erikhatc...@mac.com Looks like some MARC records I've seen. Next up on Library Planet: My Cataloger from

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any deserving UW iSchool students who would like a free registration for code4lib 2012?

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Spero
cancellations at this time. Elizabeth Elizabeth Duell Orbis Cascade Alliance edu...@uoregon.edu (541) 346-1883 On 1/30/2012 3:02 PM, Simon Spero wrote: My partner isn't going to be able to make it to the conference next week, so she is offering her paid registration to a deserving cause

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Spero
Barcode Scanner? https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.androidhl=en Simon On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:32 PM, David Mayo pobo...@gmail.com wrote: As a sort of side question, does anyone know of a halfway-decent Android app for scanning UPC-style barcodes? QR scanners

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Spero
the barcodes over wifi. But I think that might be asking a bit too much. - Dave On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Simon Spero s...@unc.edu wrote: Barcode Scanner? https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.androidhl=en Simon On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:32 PM, David

[CODE4LIB] Any deserving UW iSchool students who would like a free registration for code4lib 2012?

2012-01-30 Thread Simon Spero
My partner isn't going to be able to make it to the conference next week, so she is offering her paid registration to a deserving cause (students by preference). Simon

[CODE4LIB] FRBR aggravating wotsits (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Calling all Maryland, DC, and Virginia folk Save the Date)

2012-01-11 Thread Simon Spero
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Joshua Gomez jngo...@library.gwu.eduwrote: will be a quick summary of FRBR, and a possible solution for aggregates which opens up a whole 'nother can of worms, but allows for some complex relationships to be described. Any summary of the discussion? I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread Simon Spero
You can get anything you want At Brewster Kahle's restaurant. http://openlibrary.org/data#bulk_download Simon On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: http://staff.oclc.org/~levan/PearsTraining/scifi.usmarc has 10,000 marc records in it. They are part of the old

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-11 Thread Simon Spero
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Suppose I have RDF describing an object, and I would like some fairly free-form human generating description about the object (let's say within dcterms:description). Is it semantically acceptable to have XHTML

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-shirt contest winner

2011-12-23 Thread Simon Spero
There seems to be a character encoding error; #\( is rendering as #\{ and #\) is rendering as #\}. ((believes ed.) (that (shurely (that (exists ?X (mistake ?X))) Simon On Dec 22, 2011 10:53 PM, Ann Lally ala...@uw.edu wrote: Sean Hannan from Johns Hopkins University is the winner of the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any ideas for free pdf to excel conversion?

2011-12-14 Thread Simon Spero
ABBYY Finereader can do this. http://www.abbyy.com Also, typing the company name can teleport you to different parts of the dungeon. Simon On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Matt Amory matt.am...@gmail.com wrote: Just looking to preserve column structure. -- Matt Amory (917) 771-4157

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Simon Spero
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Quoting Simon Spero s...@unc.edu: From a logical point of view, a bibliographic record can seen as a theory -that is to say a consistent set of statements. There may be records describing the same thing, but the theories

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Simon Spero
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: On 12/11/2011 08:52 PM, Simon Spero wrote: The point I was trying to make is not related to any kind of display- it is about how the meanings of the statements derived from a record are only The reality that library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-10 Thread Simon Spero
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@talis.comwrote: *A record is a silo within a silo* * * A record within a catalogue duplicates the publisher/author/subject/etc.information stored in adjacent records describing items by the same author/publisher/etc. This

[CODE4LIB] Taint the vote

2011-12-01 Thread Simon Spero
I think this calls for an unwritten rule engine. On Dec 1, 2011 10:22 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: I think the point of the hubbub today is trying to articulate the rule that should be written. Nobody is being excluded: we make things up as they go along and anybody is

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR Solutions

2011-11-06 Thread Simon Spero
ABBYY sdk does have a linux option which can be driven from the command line. I'm not sure if the linux version is having as active development as the windows one, as the linux sdk is one major behind the windows one, but the linux ocr engine for that version had some improvements over the

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR Solutions

2011-11-04 Thread Simon Spero
ABBYY's engine is pretty good; though depending on whether you've already scanned the text you might end up with higher thruput by having the OCR performed at each scanning station. I'm not sure if the non-server software is multi-core/multi-processor aware; the version that is used in the

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR Solutions

2011-11-04 Thread Simon Spero
you've already paid for it once... :) also am a fan of adobe acrobat's ocr and optimizer. ap On 11/4/11 2:25 PM, Simon Spero s...@unc.edu wrote: ABBYY's engine is pretty good; though depending on whether you've already scanned the text you might end up with higher thruput by having

Re: [CODE4LIB] GRAP: The granular restricted access problem

2011-11-03 Thread Simon Spero
Issues related to provenance and access control are of great practical importance to the intelligence and defense communities, as well as to the financial sector. There are multiple regions in the problem space that have been explored and for which COTS/GOTS solutions are available. One

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Digital Library Repository Developer, Boston Public Library (Boston, MA)

2011-11-01 Thread Simon Spero
Project Greenlight having been long since canceled, the position has been replaced by a drama about crooked deals to control corrupted metadata called Crosswalk Empire. There is still a development position for fedora with the title True Bugs. On Oct 31, 2011 9:50 PM, Michael J. Giarlo

Re: [CODE4LIB] screen scraping

2011-10-03 Thread Simon Spero
On Oct 3, 2011 9:19 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: 1. respect robots.txt Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. Remember that robots.txt applies only to recursive web crawlers, and not to screen-scraping per se. In cases

Re: [CODE4LIB] memory management for grownups

2011-08-30 Thread Simon Spero
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: I have a feeling it may be time for me to learn some grown-up programming skills, and I hope someone here might be able to help. I'm basically building a big associative array encoding the name of the borrowing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class

2011-08-11 Thread Simon Spero
Sender: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU On-Behalf-Of: sesunc...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class Message-Id: cfd505f2-8dec-47e8-b0d3-b0bd0a759...@gmail.com Recipient: jcost...@trinity.edu.test-google-a.com, Forwarded: jane.costa...@trinity.edu Recipient:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class

2011-07-28 Thread Simon Spero
On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: If I'm hiring a programmer, I want them to know C and Python. [...] Various flavors of C are acceptable: Objective-C is OK with me, and C++ is a plus -- it's an order of magnitude more difficult than C to use properly, and people who can

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any Experiences with In-House Training and Development?

2011-07-20 Thread Simon Spero
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Nordstrom, Kurt kurt.nordst...@unt.eduwrote: Unfortunately, in today's economic climate, the prospect of being able to ship your developer team across the country to attend week-long seminars or conferences or what-have-you is not quite as realistic as it

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